2019 -- S 0155

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2019

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RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- AIRPORTS AND LANDING FIELDS

     Introduced By: Senators Lynch Prata, McCaffrey, and McKenney

     Date Introduced: January 24, 2019

     Referred To: Senate Judiciary

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 1-2-17 of the General Laws in Chapter 1-2 entitled "Airports and

Landing Fields" is hereby amended to read as follows:

     1-2-17. Payment for compensation for municipal services to the city of Warwick.

     The Rhode Island airport corporation, from a parking surcharge at the T.F. Green state

airport as defined by a 1988 agreement between the state acting by and through the director of

transportation and the city of Warwick, shall pay to the city of Warwick out of the parking

revenue received at T.F. Green state airport as compensation for municipal services provided at

T.F. Green state airport a sum of not less than two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars

($275,000) for fiscal year 1994 payable quarterly; for each fiscal year after 1994, this sum may be

reviewed and/or renegotiated by the mayor of the city of Warwick and the airport corporation, but

in no event will the sum be less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) in any fiscal year

beginning after 1993 and before 2005, or less than seven hundred fifty thousand dollars

($750,000) in any fiscal year beginning after 2004, or less than one million four hundred

thousand dollars ($1,400,000) in any fiscal year beginning on or after July 1, 2019, provided any

payments provided or any portion of these payments is not disapproved by the F.A.A. In the

event that the F.A.A. disapproves this payment from the airport corporation, the state shall pay to

the city of Warwick the sums of money required to insure that the city of Warwick receives five

hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000).

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- AIRPORTS AND LANDING FIELDS

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     This act would increase the amount of compensation to be paid from the Rhode Island

airport corporation or the state to the city of Warwick for municipal services provided by the city

to the T.F. Green Airport to not less than one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000)

in any fiscal year commencing on or after July 1, 2019.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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